The 1996 Telecommunications Act ______.

a. prohibited broadcast networks from owning cable stations
b. created the equal time rule
c. allowed ownership of multiple broadcast stations as long as those stations did not reach more than 35 percent of the market
d. exempted cable stations from the same standards of fairness and decency required of broadcast stations
e. required both radio and television stations to adhere to the fairness doctrine


e. required both radio and television stations to adhere to the fairness doctrine

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a. industrialized democracies. b. current and/or former Communist states. c. the Global South. d. interest groups. e. political parties.

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The techniques for equating demand characteristics across conditions do not necessarily equate each participant's perceptions of how they can present themselves in the most positive manner

To assess this aspect of participants' perceptions one could use a. concurrent and retrospective verbal reports. b. retrospective and introspective reports. c. introspective and concurrent verbal reports. d. introspective reports and thinking aloud.

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The early environmental movement was launched, in part, in reaction to

A) the appearance of dead whales on the West Coast. B) the overpopulation of deer in Oregon. C) an outbreak of diseases among birds in the Northeast. D) an oil spill on the beaches of Santa Barbara, California. E) a natural-gas eruption in Destin, Florida.

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The United States has refused to ratify the Kyoto Protocol because it poses excessive costs to American firms and a threat to American living standards

Indicate whether the statement is true or false

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